KILMARNOCK manager Kenny Shiels admitted it was not a game for the purists but was delighted to see his side grab a late winner against St Mirren.

In unhelpful conditions Danny Racchi's sublime last-minute goal earned Killie a 2-1 win and moved Shiels' side up to seventh in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League table in place of their opponents.

Shiels had to watch his side battle back from behind after Lee Mair opened the scoring after 10 minutes. Paul Heffernan levelled before Racchi's wonderful winner.

"All I can do is apologise to the fans who came to see entertaining football," said Shiels.

"If you look at the effort and the desire from both sets of players you can see that it was there to play good football but the game lacked quality.

"The pitch won the game as it stopped our flow. In the first 20 minutes St Mirren taught us a football lesson. But I am really pleased to have won the game as I have been on the other side of the fence this season where we dominated matches that we ended up drawing.

"St Mirren have fantastic depth within our squad and we were missing some big players that fit perfectly into our squad too.

"We had to resort to playing route-one football and that eventually earned us the winning goal, it was a fantastic finish from Danny."